Reason and Revolution: Extraordinary Works from a Distinguished Private Collection. Part 1

Reason and Revolution: Extraordinary Works from a Distinguished Private Collection. Part 1

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Bion, Nicholas | Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathematique, Paris, 1709, first edition

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Bion, Nicholas

Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathematique. Paris: widow of Jean Boudot, Jacques Collombat, and Jean Boudot fils, 1709


First edition. A survey of the full range of mathematical instruments, including rulers, protractors, astrolabes, sundials, sea charts, and a micrometer.


8vo (217 x 135 mm). 28 engraved plates, of which one folding, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials; leaves lightly toned, title with marginal repair, occasional stains. Nineteenth-century blue half-sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt in five compartments, brown morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers, upper edge gilt, fore-edge partially speckled red; boards lightly rubbed. 


REFERENCES

The Geometry of War 32; Tomash & Williams B155


PROVENANCE

Robert S. Dunham (acquired from Brentano’s Bookstores; Sotheby's New York, 11 December 1993, lot 723, part)

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